13 Apr 1792
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 13, 1792
Page
1
A fragmented notice advertises an auction at a Cheapside stationer’s shop. It mentions a garden parcel with four acres, a six horse stable, a double Coch-House, and a field, to be viewed Sundays and by appointment from noon. Enquiries directed to Mr. Macklin, Stationer, 97 Cheapside.
Public notice from the General Post Office seeking John Oxley and SPENCE BROUGHTON for robbing the Cambridge Mail near Bourn Bridge on June 6 last and a second charge for robbing the Mail between Sheffield and Rotherham on January 7, 1791. Oxley is described as about 25, five feet ten, pale, with smallpox pits and a slight nose turn. reward of 100 pounds offered for his capture within three months.
The constable stopped a brown bay saddle gelding in Beaconsfield on Thursday March 15, 1792. The four year old, about 14 hands with star blaze four white feet and a recently cropped tail is claimed by a man offering him for sale below value. The owner or rightful keeper is not identified. inquiries continue. Apply to Joseph Wingrove Beaconsfield or White Hare Beaconsfield.
In the Evening Mail the pernicious trend of lotteries is examined with arguments for and against. Proponents claim lotteries ease state borrowing and lower interest, funding government needs without extra taxes. Critics argue the moral and economic costs outweigh any financial gain, warning that tax relief cannot justify societal decay.
Fragmented text discusses a Police Bill with debates on station placement and magistrate salaries, plus an extract of Treasury figures and a letter from 1742 about love and social life. The article blends political commentary with archival notices and literary excerpts.
A January 11 1792 Massachusetts House session heard Mrs Deborah Gannett recount her service as Robert Shurtliff in the U S Army for three years with honourable discharge. She seeks arrears payment and commendation, with several members supporting her veteran heroism and a committee to review the petition for compensation.
The Secretary of the Treasury presents a House report listing expenditures and appropriations from 1791 through 1793. It covers funds for government support, treaty efforts with Morocco, raising a new regiment, frontier defense, and payments to cover foreign intercourse costs under acts dated February 12 1791 March 3 1791 and December 23 1792. It includes totals and advances as authorized by those acts.
An obscure fragment recalls a miracle at Gray's Inn amid sober skeptics led by Pindard Junior. It mentions an Irishman who died drunk on Saint Patrick's Day, aged forty two, with mythical debt to the saint and nightly wine accounts watched by Heaven on March seventeenth.
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